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Personal Data:

Name: (Mr) Yrjö Henrik Roschier

Date of Birth: February 22nd, 1977

Place of Registration: Pieksämäki, Finland

Education:

• 2007- undergraduate student, Mikkeli University of Applied Sciences (main subject: forestry)
• 2004- postgraduate student, University of Jyväskylä, Department of Languages (main subject: Latin)
  
  
• 2003 Master of Arts (MA), University of Jyväskylä (general history, Latin; various subsidiary subjects)
• 1996 Matriculation Examination, Pieksämäki Secondary School

Writings:

Publications

• "Astronomical and Cosmological Themes in Learned Latin Literature. Towards a Comprehensive History of Roman Cosmology". Included in: Ad itum liberum. Essays in Honour of Anne Helttula, p. 45-59. Outi Merisalo & Raija Vainio (ed.), Jyväskylä 2007.

Theses

• Master's thesis in general history:
  Käsitykset taivaankappaleiden maankaltaisuudesta ja Maan ulkopuolisesta elämästä 1600-luvun alkupuoliskon eurooppalaisessa luonnonfilosofiassa. 2003.
  ('Conceptions of Similarity of the Heavenly Bodies to Earth and Extraterrestrial Life in European Natural Philosophy during the First Half of the Seventeenth Century.')
  114 pages, available in PDF format, filesize 2,3 megabytes:
  <URL: http://selene.lib.jyu.fi:8080/gradu/v03/G0000393.pdf>
• subsidiary thesis in Latin:
  Maailmankaikkeuden rakenne sekä tähdet ja planeetat Plinius vanhemman Naturalis historia -teoksen toisessa kirjassa. 2003.
  ('The Structure of the Universe, and Stars and Planets as Presented by Pliny the Elder in the Second Book of His Natural History.')
  48 pages, available in PDF format, filesize 556 kilobytes:
  <URL: http://selene.lib.jyu.fi:8080/gradu/v03/G0000371.pdf>

Other

• "Mäenpään Kartanon ja sen asukkaiden historiaa". Kivenjuuret (literally 'Stone roots', a magazine for members of the Stenroth Genealogical Society), issue 12. 2003.
• "Savolainen piirilääkäri ja hänen päiväkirjansa". Kivenjuuret (literally 'Stone roots', a magazine for members of the Stenroth Genealogical Society), issue 15. 2004.
• " 'Pieksämäki ei ole juuri mikään ruma pitäjä' ". Kivenjuuret (literally 'Stone roots', a magazine for members of the Stenroth Genealogical Society), issue 18. 2006.
• (& Marja Roschier-Halonen): "Siilin mylly: Sukuhistoriaa ja elinkeinoelämää". Kivenjuuret (literally 'Stone roots', a magazine for members of the Stenroth Genealogical Society), issue 20. 2008.